Re: If you are under sixty, how did you get interested in Packards?

Posted by mendocino38 On 2013/5/8 14:48:56

I'm under 60 (40 almost 41) and I've mostly been into Hudson's and early Dodge. Well, most anything unique and interesting. The orphan cars just jumped out me: Studebaker, Hudson, Nash, Packard, etc...

My father drove a 1936 Dodge sedan delivery until I was 15 yrs. old (we called it the 'Hunch Back'). I remember looking out over that long narrow nose at the ram hood ornament as a child... and when I stumbled across my '38 Packard (of nearly the same color as my dad's Dodge) it brought back those formative memories. Even better though...it's a Packard, albeit a Packard Six. It was affordable (not enough to get me in the dog house), so I jumped on it.

I love that era of grace in design. It feels like an adult car. Not a hot rod, not sporty, not strictly utilitarian. I guess it's a way to relive some childhood memories along with the nostalgia of old movies like 'The Thin Man'. For me, Packard seems to capture all of that particular grace and glamor. Lord knows my '04 Dodge 2500 doesn't do that.

-Erik